Who is Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks (Hebrew: יעקב צבי זקס, romanized: Ya'akov Tzvi Zaks; 8 March 1948 – 7 November 2020) was a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author, and politician.He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he was the Chief Rabbi of those Orthodox synagogues, but was not recognized as the religious authority for the Haredi Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or for the progressive movements such as Masorti, Reform, and Liberal Judaism. As Chief Rabbi, Sacks formally carried the title of Av Beit Din (head) of the London Beth Din. At the time of his death, ...
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- Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
- Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
- Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
- Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
- Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
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- Mottlelinhart: “our shabbat is a religious institution, a memorial to creation, the day on which g-d himself rested. but it is also and essentially a political institution. shabbat is the greatest tutorial in liberty ever devised.” -rabbi jonathan sacks zt"l
- Thejewishlink: rabbi lord jonathan sacks zt”l – the power of gratitude eikev • 5775, 5782
- Charlestonrabbi: good religion worries less about getting people on earth to heaven and more worried about bringing heaven down to people on earth. (based on the teachings of rabbi jonathan sacks)
- Slmgoldberg: "god loves us so much more than we love him." -rabbi jonathan sacks, z"l
- Mottlelinhart: “to invoke g-d to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege. it is a kind of blasphemy. it is to take g-d’s name in vain.” - rabbi jonathan sacks zt"l
